New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-26

on intelligent plan for the iudicious purchase OF
PAINTINGS from annual exhibitions would
result in future gallery OF American art
these and other measures tending to the inn
provemcnt and emphatic Endorsement OF our art
will surely be carried out, and rs the supporters
Of liberal plan for the endowment OF American
nrt are likely to he men Of experience In
business affairs it may De assumed that their
management will be conservative and wise. IL
is gratifying to feel that appeals in behalf OF
American art have not passed unnoticed even IN
Wall and Broad street Offices and that the inter-
est Of some of our nnanccrs is due TO public
spirit and not TO selfish lust OF possession.
Higgins. rcformcr by the grace OF German,
wants 10 know what all this fuss about MY
Maryland" is about. "Aren I the boys he asks.
doing Just what they have always been in the
habit Of doing?" And isn't that good enough
Democracy Tor anybody "Or reform, either,
for that matter?'
Mayor Hewitt seems to have woaricd in his
waiting for an angel lie now declares that h"
will De satisfied with good man. for Park
Commissioner. and adds that he will name one
wholly "regardl.ss OF politics" VIII the Mayor
hcll up his right hand and affirm that politics
were no; considered in the case Of the two Park
Commissioners already appointed by him? Aud
il the Mayors determination TO keep unspotteI
from politics in the third appointment is com
mendabI,. what shall be said of the Influences
that prevailed in the earlier ones? But forget
ting the things that are behind the announce
mcnt by Mr.. Hewitt that he Is going 20 begin to
be radical non-partisan rcformcr Is pleasant
10 hear
Higgins must go-and SO must all the rest of
them
An odd thing about the air brakes is that they
fail to work only when the engineer gets killed
and can't TIL the rest OF the story.
There is no excuse for the Presidents selection
of such men rs Higgins and Rasin for Federal
oflices," cries the virtuous Mugwump with
loud voice. lie must turn them out or he
will not have the support Of Independents next
year, Bravcly said but not more bravely than
the same words were sail when Higgins and
Raisin were appointed. There were n few DAYS
of spasmodc indignation. and then the President
was pcttcd, cOldcd, fattcrcd and eulogized month
after month The virtuous Mugwump has no
excuse to-day; possibly he will have none to-
morrow but OH the day after the President Will
lie lauded with cymbals and shawms as the
Apostle of Civil Service reform
The way OF the transgrcssor is hard, even
when he can get a stay of proceedings.
A correspondent writes that coat OF whitewash
would have saved the ChatswoIth bridge from
burning coroncrs jury has applied the white
wash, too late for any good, however
Trouble seems to pursue those who helped
the Broadway Surface RairoGd along. Director
Hays is dead so, too. is james w. Foshay. Mr.
Kerr barely escaped destruction in being thrown
from his carriage. jacob Sharp is in prison.
McCabc has gone mad. Moloncy ct. al are
exiles And now failure overtakcs the oil house
of Mitchell, Vance 4 Co. Mr.. Vance WAS one
Of the Broadway Surface Railroad Commissioners
who had got rid of his Christopher and Tenth
Street Railroad stock and reported in favor OF
the road.
The Ute "wnr" has been going on for two
weeks and one white man has been stabbed In
the arm.
Give Mr. Ward-that is, Ives, we mean, drink
Of milk.
II the inmates OF Wards Island Insane Asylum
were only qualified voters in the City and County
Of Ncw-YorlI they would undoubtedly have first
class fare and rst-class attendance, and the Com
missioners of Charities and Correction would not
ray the bills out OF their own pockets, either
An interesting table has been compiled by The
Railway Agcn of the most destructive railway
accidents of the past forty years. From this il
appears that the number OF very serious accidents
in the United States equailed if not cXcelled
by those in foreign countries For example,
those in which sixty more persons were killed
were in America as follows: July II, 1856, Phila-
dclpbia aud Reading Railroad, at Camphill, Penn,
collision, 66 killed, 100 injured July 10, 1864,
Erie Railroad. at Port Jervis, ~ Y, head collision
80 killed, 100 injured December 20, 1876, Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern at Ashtabula, o.,
broken bridge about so killed, so injured and
the Chatsworth disaster with II killed and 1870
injured On foreign railways during the same
period there were the following: March IT, 1857,
Great Western Of Canada at the Dcs Jardines
Canal by q broken bridge 60 killed. 30 injured
June 30 1864, Grand Trunk of Canada, at
Richcleu River, by an open drawbridge. Sc
killed, hundreds" injured; December 20, 1879,
North British Railway at the Tay Bridge, by de-
railment, "a killed; June "a, 1881, Morelis Rail
road at San Antonio River. by a broken bridge,
200 killed June g. 1885, at Kosleif, Russia, train
derailed by wreckers, 20 killed and wounded.
VI do not believe in any rosewater buslnessl"
| exclaims Mr.. Cowen, OF the Baltimore Citizens
! RAf"-.~ League. He discredits in this sentence